BudmanTX
Well-Known Member
Such rules exist and are adhered to by enlarge by liberal democracies that have the rule of law, domestic and international, however the rule of law does not really exist in a dictatorship. There are no policeman in international affairs there is only war and retribution, while trying not to descend to their level. Civilians are suppose to be protected by the laws of war, and if what happened in Bucha, happened elsewhere and it appears to be common in other places under occupation. I cannot mortally or ethically judge such people when they poison Russian troops, while risking their own lives to do it. I have no doubt the Russians came back and were looking for blood. When they break the rules, others will too, there are more than professional soldiers on this battlefield, there are civilians at every level resisting in every way imaginable, some are armed. In time there would have been IDE's, suicide bombers and truck bombs in the Russian areas, with what they were doing to the civilian population.
America made it's enemies it's allies after WW2, the Russians helped a lot with this, as both a carrot and a stick, both in Japan and in Germany. The policy of self determination and free trade was anti colonial and pushed by the States, while supported by the British who wanted to quit the empire. It did much for world peace and to check communist expansion in the cold war, however they also propped up a lot of dictators and strong men that made Vlad seem tame.
Bucha is just a stepping stone now, they're other reports to the east as well, and a couple of more, Irpin is one and another just north....Russia really screwed up now......